THE EPISTLE DEDICATORIE IN THE THIRD FOLUME 

 OF THE SECOND EDITION, 1600. 



To the Right Honourable Sir Robert Cecil Knight, 

 principall Secretary to her Majestic, master of 

 the Court of Wards and Liveries, and one of 

 her Majesties most honourable privie Councel. 



Ight honourable, your favourable accep- 

 tance of my second volume of The English 

 voyages offred unto you the last yere, 

 your perusing of the same at your con- 

 venient leasure, your good testimony of 

 my selfe and of my travailes therein, 

 together with the infallible signes of your 

 earnest desire to doe mee good, which very lately, when 

 I thought least thereof, brake forth into most bountiful 

 and acceptable eifects: these considerations have throughly 

 animated and encouraged me to present unto your pru- 

 dent censure this my third and last volume also. The 

 subject and matter herein contained is the fourth part 

 of the world, which more commonly then properly is 

 called America : but by the chiefest authors The new 

 world. New, in regard of the new and late discovery 

 thereof made by Christopher Colon, alias Columbus, a 

 Genouois by nation, in the yere of grace 1492. And 

 world, in respect of the huge extension thereof, which 

 to this day is not throughly discovered, neither within 

 the Inland nor on the coast, especially toward the North 

 and Northwest, although on the hither side it be knowen 

 unto us for the space of five thousand leagues at the least, 

 compting and considering the trending of the land, and 



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